Trammell Crow to Develop 37-Story Office Tower in Downtown Austin

Downtown Austin has attracted Facebook, Google and other tech tenants.

AUSTIN – Trammell Crow is planning a 37-story office tower on Block 71 – a downtown Austin site owned by the University of Texas System, reports Shonda Novak of the Austin American-Statesman.

The project will include 665,000 SF of office space, plus restaurants and retail space. Trammell Crow signed a 95-year lease on the university’s 1.75-acre site, bounded by West Sixth, West Seventh, Colorado and Lavaca streets, a couple of blocks west of Congress Avenue.

A historic building on the block, Claudia Taylor Johnson Hall, which was Austin’s Post Office in the early 1900s, will be retained and redeveloped, Novak reports.

A number of new buildings are on the Austin skyline, including new tower occupied by Google and a building under construction that will be anchored by Facebook.

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